A dairy farmer at a recent conference told me, "I hear all the time that we need to tell our story so our consumers can understand what life is like on the farm

A great employer learns to speak the language of their employees

A legislative tour can shed light on farm issues for members of the legislature

The path to dairy farm ownership is not an easy one. For some families, the transfer of the dairy from one generation to the next can be filled with highs and lows

I was watching the Land O’Lakes Farm Bowl via the internet yesterday to see how the professional football players and farmers fared in this obstacle course

“You can’t be a stay-at-home-mom. You’ll never be able to keep up with the Joneses.” Those were my academic adviser’s words

Many of us have grown up working side by side with a grandparent, parent, or mentor that has directly affected our lives in one way or another. It is thanks to these people that we are who we are today

Robots helped us change the way we dairy, and we wouldn’t go back

Land O'Lakes is sponsoring Farm Bowl to highlight the skills that football players and farmers share

The internet has joined the agriculture industry together

Even when offered really good professional advice, one should consider how that advice fits into the farm’s goals

I was in college when I first heard the phrase: faith first, family second, career third. It made sense at the time. Even now it makes some sense

The single most important time in a cow’s life that could almost forecast her entire lactation is the transition period

I’ve never been one to set a big New Year’s resolution. I guess with the farm always throwing curve balls at my life, it just feels too heavy of a thing to take on

“What do you want to be when you grow up?”

Just this week, a professor I encountered at Penn State passed away

I’ll be the first to admit that my husband and I are “genetics junkies.”

In life, there are moments that shape who you are. Sometimes those moments are happy and sometimes they are not. Today I lost a cow. It was not just any cow

Before this piece starts the arguments for and against the above stated question, I want to simply open this as a conversation

My Christmas list is rather short this year . . . the only gift I’d really like is to spend time with my family